Students from Leeds Metropolitan University marched through the city centre to voice their anger over the closure of the Faculty of Health and Social Care. Elsewhere a future Leeds Rhinos star signed on the dotted line for the club. Jamie Jones-Buchanan would go on to play his entire professional career with Leeds, winning seven Super League Grand Finals, three World Club Challenges, three League Leaders' Shields and one Challenge Cup Final. Work was preparing to start on what would become Cardigan Fields leisure and entertainment centre in Kirkstall while a couple built a fish and chip shop in the garden of their Leeds home. This was Leeds in February 1997 - is it a city you remember? READ MORE: Leeds in February 1996 - 17 stories making the news LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Leeds in February 1997
Pupils and staff at Bentley Primary were celebrating after Leeds City Council agreed to look into providing money for a security fence around the school. Also pictured is head teacher Margaret Cawsey.
14. Leeds in February 1997
Joanne Nicholson (left) and Angela Latham during their flour fight at the Co-op Super C supermarket in Armley, where the store was selling flour for 1p as part of their 150 years anniversary. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
15. Leeds in February 1997
Vincent Clynes-Green and wife Leslie outside the new fish shop he has built in the garden of their home in Fairfield Avenue, Bramley.
16. Leeds in February 1997
City of Leeds Diving Club members with their trophies at the International Pool. Back: Rebecca Lee, Matthew Bass, Michael Barnes, James Etherington, Robert Kennedy and Rebecca Burrows. Front, Emma Teather, Andy Cardis, Gary Hunt, Phil Carter, Lizzie Cardis and Lucy Hirst
17. Leeds in February 1997
PC Graham Lawton and Special Constable Jazpal Panestar pictured in Chapeltown
18. Leeds in February 1997
Question Time was filmed at YTV studios in Leeds. The panel, from left is David Dimbleby (chair), Robin Cook MP, Lord Steel of Aikwood, Rosalind Gilmore and Kenneth Clark MP. Photo: Mark Bickerdike